The Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in site becomes a Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, N.C.
1909 murder-suicide in the UK's National Portrait Gallery published in their Archive Catalogue.
The Jewish heir to a Nazi looted Klimt landscape has agreed to split the $45.4 million proceeds from the Sotheby's auction with the current owner, who bought it in good faith.
Shaun Greenhalgh, the extremely talented forger who sold fake masterpieces to British museums and auction houses, was recently sentenced to prison, along with his octogenarian accomplice parents.
Since the FBI's Art Crime Unit's inception in 2004, $142 million worth of art has been recovered, yet an estimated $8 billion is lost each year in art and cultural property crimes.
An agreement has been reached between the United States Government, private corporations and preservation societies that will protect carvings on Utah's Nine Mile Canyon.
East Asian remains were found in a 1 CE Roman necropolis, which suggest that there could have been East Asians in Italy before a formal delegation from the Han dynasty made it's "First Contact."
More deaccessioning thoughts from Judith H. Dobrzynski since her January 2nd article "The Art of the Deal" in the New York Times.
Mark Durney points looks at whether art theft is seasonal.
Slate looks at the power of civil asset forfeiture, a tool often used by prosecutors in art and antiquities regulation.
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